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Trump-Musk Administration’s DOGE Focused on Gutting Americans’ Essential Benefits, While Making Themselves Richer

Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continued its reckless crusade of skirting checks and balances and taking a machete to essential benefits from housing to health care to veterans’ services while Trump, Elon Musk, and their cronies use the federal government to generate profits for themselves. 

New details have come to light showing that numerous DOGE and top Trump Administration aides are facing potential conflicts of interest as they lobby on behalf of corporate clients and enrich themselves while simultaneously directing DOGE’s cuts to benefits that everyday Americans depend on. That’s on top of the at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, and subsidies that has been funneled to Elon Musk’s business over the past two decades, helping make him the most wealthy man in the world. New details have also come to light on Musk’s latest ploy to leverage the federal government to benefit himself – as the FAA is reportedly eyeing diverting billions of dollars to benefit his company. 

Americans deserve real reform to root out wasteful federal spending, cut red tape and bureaucracy, and make the government run better. Instead, DOGE is putting a for sale sign on the federal government, dramatically overstating the dollars being saved, and everyday Americans are being left to pay the price with climbing costs. 

HOW THE TRUMP-MUSK ADMINISTRATION’S DOGE IS HARMING FAMILIES 
  • Driving up housing costs by slashing the Department of Housing and Urban Development: Trump and Musk’s DOGE is reportedly planning to cut more than half of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s workforce which is expected to “upend housing markets, make homes less affordable and roil mortgage transactions” while Americans already face a national housing affordability crisis. 
  • Undermining public health amidst bird flu outbreak and rising egg prices: The Trump Administration reportedly accidentally fired several USDA employees who were working on combating the H5N1 avian flu outbreak which is driving increased egg prices for families. As one veterinary researcher noted, the firings are “creating a lot of problems.”
  • Threatening our national security by gutting hundreds overseeing our nuclear stockpile: Over 300 employees at the National Nuclear Security Administration responsible for ensuring our nuclear stockpile is safe and secure were fired – before the Trump Administration reversed course, attempted to rehire them, and then struggled to reach the former employees. A nuclear power expert has noted that the firings “can only benefit the adversaries of this country.”
  • Gutting hundreds of FEMA employees, hindering our ability to respond to natural disasters: The Administration fired over 200 emergency management employees, making the agency which is responsible for responding to natural disasters like wildfires, hurricanes, and floods more vulnerable. The cuts come amid an existing staffing shortfall and increasingly frequent large scale disasters.
  • Axing thousands of PEPFAR workers focused on combatting and ending the AIDS epidemic: PEPFAR, the bipartisan program established to eradicate HIV/AIDS, has saved more than 26 million lives by investing in and increasing access to HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment – making Americans safer by managing a global public health threat. Now it’s under threat after the Administration fired thousands of health workers, causing “panic, fear and confusion.”

CONTENT TO LIFT

  • ‪@Accountable-US.bsky.social‬: Trump is gutting the federal workforce—again. His administration just ordered agencies to submit plans for “large-scale” firings, straight out of the Project 2025 playbook. This isn’t efficiency—it’s dismantling government to serve the ultra-rich. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-…
  • @accountable-us.bsky.social‬: Trump aides are running the government while cashing checks from private clients—including Big Tech and Saudi-backed firms. No public disclosures. No financial sacrifices. Just influence for sale at the highest levels. This is private enrichment on taxpayer time. www.wsj.com/politics/pol…
  • @congressmin.bsky.social‬: Elon Musk and DOGE are attacking our Constitution, stealing our data, and illegally freezing Congressional funding for key programs like Meals on Wheels and veterans health. That’s why I introduced the BAD DOGE Act to delete DOGE. It’s time to put a stop to this lawlessness.
  • @votevets.org‬ 🚨 6,000 Veterans fired under DOGE—more to come. Rep. Derek Tran, an Army Veteran & former employment lawyer, is fighting back with the Protect Veterans Jobs Act to reinstate fired Vets & hold agencies accountable. Republicans talk about supporting Veterans—now’s their chance to prove it.
  • @duckworth.senate.gov‬: Elon Musk has fired an estimated nearly 6,000 Veterans from their federal jobs, including many who are disabled. In Trump’s America, the world’s richest man gets to kick thousands of our nation’s heroes to the curb. punchbowl.news/article/wash…

 

Budget cuts by DOGE are hitting critical services hard—healthcare, farmers’ aid, research, veterans’ care, and Head Start programs. Feeling the impact?
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